SPEAr (Structured Processor Enhanced Architecture). SPEAr600 is also known as SPEArPlus and SPEAr300 is also known as SPEArBasic The SPEAr SoC family embeds a customizable logic that can be programmed one-time by a customer at silicon mask level (i.e. not at runtime!). We are now adding the support in u-boot for two SoC: SPEAr600 and SPEAr3xx. All 4 SoCs share common peripherals. 1. ARM926ejs core based (sp600 has two cores, the 2nd handled only in Linux) 2. FastEthernet (sp600 has Gbit version, but same controller - GMAC) 3. USB Host 4. USB Device 5. NAND controller (FSMC) 6. Serial NOR ctrl 7. I2C 8. SPI 9. CLCD 10. others .. Everything is supported in Linux. u-boot is not currently supporting all peripeharls (just a few as listed below). 1. USB Device 2. NAND controller (FSMC) 3. Serial Memory Interface 4. EMI (Parallel NOR interface) 4. I2C 5. UART Build options make spear600_config make spear300_config make spear310_config make spear320_config Further options make ENV=NAND (supported by all 4 SoCs) - This option generates a uboot image that saves environment inn NAND make CONSOLE=USB (supported by all 4 SoCs) - This option generates a uboot image for using usbdevice as a tty i/f make FLASH=PNOR (supported by SPEAr310 and SPEAr320) - This option generates a uboot image that supports emi controller for CFI compliant parallel NOR flash Mac id storage and retrieval in spear platforms Please read doc/README.enetaddr for the implementation guidelines for mac id usage. Basically, environment has precedence over board specific storage. The ethaddr beeing used for the network interface is always taken only from environment variables. Although, we can check the mac id programmed in i2c memory by using chip_config command